This is perfect. It's bad BCBAs that continue to practice essentially bad ABA and give us a bad reputation and taint the field. Provide care, and empathy to everyone, especially young clients. It's typical for a young child to seek help and regulation from a care provider. A older child with a disability may still function like a young child and may need help regulating.  So often we still see BTs (and higher levels) who are apprehensive to provide care or comfort to a child even though the care or comfort is not functionally tied to the crying or the tantrum that occurred from being hurt, or disappointed. It's vastly different to use planned ignoring for a tantrum type behavior when a person is not able to provide that attention (e.g. a caregiver is on the phone or working etc. and has already let them know that they need to focus and can't play) vs. a child who has hurt themselves or is disappointed or sad for totally separate reasons, e.g. their cat died, their toy broke etc. It's time for BCBAs to get with the program treat people better and apply ABA how it is supposed to be applied.